The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of fartlek training on cardiac respiratory endurance and resting pulse rate. To achieve this purpose 20 male kabaddi players were randomly selected from the state Kabaddi players Gautam Buddha Nagar. The age of the players were ranged from 18 to 20 years. The players were further classified at random into two equal groups of 10 kabaddi male players each. Group-I underwent fartlek training for three days per week for eight weeks and Group-II acted as control. The selected criterion variables namely cardio respiratory endurance and resting pulse rate were assessed before and after the training period the collected data were statistically analyzed by using analyzing of covariance (ANCOVA) from the results of the study it was found that there was a significant improvement on cardio-respiratory endurance and resting pulse rate for fartlek training group when compared with the control group.